Well welcome to our studios in the capital tehran, this is press tv news, thanks for joining us. 152 days into israels genocidal war, the regime keeps targeting civilians in all areas of gaza, worsening the humanitarian of conditions and. Careless of International Calls to halt the bloodshed, israel staged even more air strikes on residential areas all over gaza. The tax have increased the number of civilian casualties and injuries pressuring the already deprived health system. Hospitals are on the verge of total shutdown due to the israeli prevention of aid entry into gaza. The death toll from the israel on gaza since early october has surpassed 30,700, majority of them women and children. Failing to achieve is detectives in gaza of the israel regime still faces fierce resistance from palestinian fighters who have been inflicting losses on the regime. The alts brigades has targeted the gatherings of iof soldiers and number of military vehicles. Press tvs saba joined us earlier from central gaza city of deral balla to update us on the fresh israeli attacks in the gaza strap. The israeli accubition forces. Committed at least nine opponing massacers against the Palestinian Civilians across different areas of gaz strip over the last 24 hours, claiming the lives of at least 86 Palestinian Civilians and injuring 113 others. Its worth mentioning that the israeli killing machine continues claiming more lives of the Palestinian Civilians. Over the last couple of hours the israel incubation forces intensified their attacks against the central area of gaza strip as at least seven Palestinian Civilians were reportedly killed in addition to 10 injuries after the israel incubation forces opened their gun fire towards the Palestinian Civilians gathering near gaza valley area located between the central area of gaz strip and gaz city uh its worth mentioning that uh that area particularly the northern parts of anu sarati fiji camp and almograga neighborhood witnessed harsh israeli attacks and against that area, including the consecutive and the continuous israeli air strikes and the constant israeli artillery shilling uh destroying more horizontal buildings and uh resulting more devastation in the infrastructure there and in the meantime here in balah city the israeli incubation forces destroyed anotherers than the buildings after the israeli war planes destroyed and leveled to the ground that building uh its located in the south the southern part of their balah city. The organization of the islamic cooperation has held an extraordinary for ministerial meeting in the saudi city of jedda to discuss the Israeli Occupation of palestine. Gaza was the focus of the talks of with the final oic statement calling for immediate and a conditional end to the deadly israely aggression against the besieg territory. The oic calls for immediate and unconditional cease fire and succession of the allout aggression against the. Palestinian people in the gaza strip, the provision of unimpeded and adequate humanitarian medical and relief aid, the provision of water and electricity and the opening of humanitarian corridors to deliver urgent aid to the gaza strip. The statement from the 57 member block also warned about the dangerous consequences of continuing israely genocide and ethnic cleansing of palestinians in gaza. He called on the Un Security Council to take urgent. Measures to stop israeli atrocities in gaza, as well as the rest of the occupied palestinian territories. The yc categorically rejected any attempts to forcibly transfer the Palestinian People from their ancestral land. Said the peace can only be achieved when the israely occupation comes to an end. The oic affirms that peace, security and stability in the region can only be achieved by ending the Israeli Colonial occupation and all its illegal policies and criminal practices against the Palestinian People, and calls on all countries and International Institutions to take practical steps that lead to. Powering the Palestinian People with their inalienable rights, specifically their right to selfdetermination, independence and return on the basis of International Law and International Legitimacy resolutions, and to confront all steps that undermine these rights. Thoic also criticized some countries for claiming to be defenders of human rights, while at the same time supporting the ongoing aggression against palestinians and granting impunity. The Israeli Regime, the organization did not single out a country, but the us is known for a Strong Political and military support for the Israeli Regime since it launched a genocidal war on gaza back in october. Tuesdays foreign ministerial meeting of the oic was held at the request of iran and several other members. The us is filing up pressure on the Palestinian ResistanceMovement Hamas to accept a temporary cease fire with israel. This is yet another attempt by washington. To back the beime after providing it with weapons and money to launch genocidal war on the gaza strip. The hast deal is in the hands of hamas right now, okay . Because there have been an offer, rational offer, the israelis have agreed to it and uh wait to see what the hamas does. Biden also claimed that the telavive regime has presented a rational offer on the establishment of a cease fire. He also talked about israeli captives held in in gaza, but failed to mention thousands of palestinians languishing in regimes jails for months and years without trial or charges. The us president made the remarks as egyptian and qatari mediators are trying to find ways to hammer out deal before the holy month of ramadan. Us has already vetoed three un resolutions on the gaza seasfire and supplied televive with military and Financial Support for the gaza war. Meanwile hamas underlined that the security of palestinians will not be ensured unless a permanent. In the past two days, hamas presented its position on the proposal by qatari and egyptian mediators at the end of last week. We reaffirmed our conditions for a ceasefire, a full pullout from the gazas trip, the return of the displaced to the areas they left, providing adequate relief and medical aid and launching the reconstruction process. Israel is reportedly against the withdrawal of its forces and return of Palestinian Refugees to the northern strip. In december fighting was paused and humanitarian aid was allowed into gaza as part of a week long ceasefire. It also saw an exchange of 240 palestinian abducties with 105 israeli captives. Hamas has said time and again that any Prisoner Exchange deal is out of the question, unless its conditions for a ceasefire are met. To discuss the cause of cease fire, we were joined by our guest earlier in the news review program. Lets see what they have to say. Joining us on this edition of the news review, we have professor of International Relations at lebanese university, mr. Jamal wakim, whos joining us from the lebanese cap. Beiroute also from saidia morocco, we have political commentator kevin barrett. Gentlemen, welcome to the program. Lets start off with mr. Wakiem. Uh, we were listening to the comments by us President Joe Biden who claims that the israelies have uh uh put forth rational offer. I want to get uh your thoughts on that, how do you read into those comments by the us president , and the main question here is uh, can the israelis even be trusted uh in such a. Situation well, of course, biden is supporting israel ever since it launched its aggression against gaza, and hes supporting also all political stances and initiatives, he wants israel to be victorious in this aggression against the resistance in the gaza strip, and thats why he is endorsing all conditions and prerequisites. For such an objective to be achieved, this is how we can understand bidens comments in this regard, of course uh israel cannot be trusted and throughout the the arab israeli struggle, it was only checked by power and by force, not not by any negotiations or any agreement, so thats why i believe that these conditions that are put on the table by israel are not acceptable to the resistance in gaza, and this will drag on the the conflict. In the gaza strip uh leading to more and more civilians to get killed by the israeli uh army. Mr. Kevin barrett, i want to get your thoughts as well. Do you agree with our guest in beirot that these conditions that are being being putting forth by the israelis in washington are not acceptable . Why is that . And do you also see that uh washington and the televive regime they just keep kicking the ball down further further down the field . Yeah i think uh hes right. That is that the israelis are looking for kind of socalled temporary ceasefire uh which would allow for all of their hostages to be released and then they after that cease fire is over they would be free to continue committing genocide and pulvorizing the gaza without any kind of restraint obviously thats a nonstarter the only way that the Palestinian Resistance can reasonably be expected to release all the israelis and its custody is if there is going to be a permanent ceasefire, not a temporary one, and thats thats the Sticking Point here it seems, and the americans unfortunately are seeking an israeli victory, they are on the side of the zionists, Bidens Administration is surrounded by zionists. And they dont want to see their side lose, they also have political problems though, because biden will very likely lose the next president ial election if there hasnt been some kind of durable peace, now what he would like to see, i suppose would be some sort of imaginary israeli victory, but theres no such thing, that cant happen, theres theres no perspective path to the israelis defeating hamas, and getting their people back alive, it cant the that. Thats not going to happen an israeli victory scenario, but they have these delusions, metanyahu does, because if all the other alternatives involved netanyahu leaving power and very likely entering prison, and then the americans are really just hostages of the zions and so they entertain these lunatic fantasies. Ultimately the americans are going to have to put pressure on the zionis to accept some kind of permanent cessation to the. Genocide uh, thats the only reasonable way this can end, and thats the only way that biden can preserve his chances of being reelected. Grand thanks to my guest, professor jam joining us from the lebanese capital bayrood and also political commentator kevin barret joining us from cydia, morocco. Thats rap uh for this edition of the news review, but stick around, theres plenty more to come here on press tv. Israeli forces have carried out fresh raids across occupied west bank cities, abducting several palestinians earlier our correspondent of ramalandil updated us on israeli raids that are taking place almost a daily basis. The israelis are arresting people from all works of life, including women and children, and even palestinian former prisoners who had been recently released. In the latest swap deal that was accepted between the resistance groups and israel and at the same time the israels are detaining former prisoners this morning the israels raided toulkarem they raided also betonia al khalil the village of kufrin near ramal qilia totul and betlehem according to the recent statistics of from the palestinian prisoners commission, 15 palestinians had been detained this morning and the number could be even more than 15, and this means the number of palestinians who have been detained since the 7th of october is today over 7,430 palestinians. The israels continue to claim that the main aim of the nonstop Israeli Operations across the occupied w is in in order to prevent people from being engaged in any form of resistance, even if these are peaceful demonstrations, different forms of activity, the enemy army says it is carried out fresh attacks against the us target in the gulf of aden. The naval forces of the yemani armed forces carried out an operation against a ship, an American Ship in the gulf of aden with number of appropriate naval missiles and the targets were hit accurately, thank god, which led said the tax came after the american cargo ship ignored warning calls by the yemani army to stop for inspection. He stressed the operation was in response earlier air strikes by the us and the uk on the yemini cities and also in solidarity with the palestinians in gaza. Yemed forces have targeted over two dozen israeli run or israeli linked vessels in the red sea since the beginning of the Naval Operations will continue until the Israeli Regime stops this onslot on gaza and lifts to siege. The hamas Resistance Movement has blasted this really expansionist plans in the occupied west bank. The movement says israels plans for building thousands of new settler units near auts proves the regimes intention to bring Palestinian Land under its control. The movements added that israel wants to isolate the palestinian nation. By building a network of settlements across the occupied territories. Hamas also noted that tel aviv wants to prevent the palestinians from establishing a state withouts as his capital. Tel aviv has advanced plans for building 35 thousand new settler units east or 3500 new setter units east of alqs. The israeli settlements are illegal under International Law. Some 700 thousand israelies live in around 160 settlements that were built in the occupied palestinian territories. Tensions continue to sore along lebanons southern border as israellah resists movements are engaged in heavy clashes almost a daily basis. Hez says it has carried out fresh operations against israely targets, response to the regimes were current strikes on lebanons civilian areas. Mariam salrespond from beirot join just now for an update. Mariam, what do you have for us . Well, today has retaliation for the shelling against civilian area. And the destruction of many uh civilian houses in the bordering towns and other areas as well uh they uh launch an air strike as they called it by using a kamikazi drone in the in the area of mutele against the base in mutule specifically uh of course the entire area and the the whole five kilometers beyond the border have transformed into basically a military zone uh by uh the israelis as a result of hezbolahs operations. Hezbulah also uh launched its uh its rockets against the. Bases in alam infaba hills as well as the zibdin post in the shabah farms, the israely shelling of course did not stop and many of the bordering towns and a little bit beyond that were talking about yaron and yatar in addition toira and marwahin as well as the surrounding area of the shiba which is the shiba town which is not occupied in itself of course that is always um under constant israeli shelling, now despite the israeli shelling, the lebanes today held a mass pro mass funeral actually in the town of hola which is adjacent to the border, and it was actually remarkable to see the number of people that went and attended this funeral, which was the funeral for the woman and her husband and son who were killed by israeli shelling yesterday has of course had already retaliated for that, israeli crime by launching several kachusha rockets, tens actually have to kusha rockets against several settlements and not only one. Of course, all this confrontation comes in light the time when we do have the us envoy uh here in lebanon who also held talks with the lebanese. We know also that he gave uh the speaker of the parliamenty a proposal which he said is should be extended to hazbullah. Of course the lebanese government itself has been adoment on stressing to the us that it the only thing that can actually stop hezballahs operations is if the war in gaza stops, and so theyre saying that they want to try, the us wants to try to separate these two cases and these two files uh while the government and hazbullah specifically have not accepted since this is interlinked, and were also talking about lot of fears and apprehension from the libinese government and from the resistance that the us will try to push for a, israeli demand, which is to try to create buffer zone in South Lebanon, similar to the time of the occupation, of course hezbollah has stressed that they would not allow this, and it seemed that the israelies wanted to test. That issue uh previously two days ago when there was infiltration attempts and so we see that the us of course is trying to play the the carrot and stick game trying to change the rules of the game as well uh but as long as the hezbolah resistance operations continue in South Lebanon it seems that they have the upper hand and they are probably are the ones that are orchestrating how things uh uh unravel in South Lebanon that mariam sal from we do appreciate it. The kremlin Spokesman Says the west is playing with fire by discussing the idea of sending troops to ukraine. Described as dangerous, the issue mentioned by the french president emmanuel macron. He says macrons statements came amits speculations that the west wants to see russia suffer a strategic defeat. Paskov also condemns german officers discussion of strikes on russia saying that this could lead to a further degradation of the situation. He described the western countries behavior. Achieve its goals, adding that the country is spokesman also stated that russia is keen to open to political and diplomatic ways of achieving those goals. Escalating tensions between the us and china in the South China Sea after naval incident between philippine and chinese coast guard boats there has sparked reaction in washington. Spokesperson the Us State Department has called chinas actions provocative. Saying that washington will continue supporting the philippines. Beijing called on washington to stop intervening in its maritime disputes with manila, the west philippines say. The spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign ministry also called on the philippines to resolve its maritime issues with china through bilateral channels and not to allow the us to sew discord between the two neighbors. Us has also been deepening ties with taiwan through selling arms to the country, despite objections from beijing. China has time and again warned that it will use. Of course, if necessary, to add taiwan to his mainland. Now to the us were former President Donald Trump who has increased his lead further on super tuesday, this is the day when the outcome of democratic and republican primaries in 15 states and one territory typically shapes the race for the white house. Dressing his supports in florida, trump hailed his wins as unprecedented. Thank you very much. We call it super tuesday for a reason